Improvement in horse-shoe bars



@anni @fine EBENEZER GATE, OF WATERTOWN, MASSAOHUSET'IS.

Letters Patent No. 109,586, dated November 29, 1870.

`IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-SHOE BARS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making peut of the same.

1.0 all whom 'it may concern:

Bc it; known that I, EBEXEZERCATE, ot Watertown, Middlesex county, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Shoe Iron; and I. hereby declare the following to he a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the4 aeei'nnpanvin;` drawing forming pnrt of this speeiiicntion.

The nature (l1-'essence of' my invention consists in a bar of iron rolled or swnged alternately, with and without; a rabbet and groove or flange and groove, to adapt it to nmkinghorse-shoes when bent into proper shape or form for the foot of the horse;

Figure'l shows a bar 'ol' my improved horse-shoe iron Ilatwise, and the Seremi small figures show sections of the bar opposite the dotted lilies which conneet them with the rigole ot the bar.

My improved bars of horse-shoe iron are intended to he separated ab the points A A, and the. piece between snid points forms a shoe when itis heut in proper form to Iii', the foot of the horse.

The section A' shows the form of the qhar ai', A, and the section B' shows the form ofthe bar au15, and the section C' shows the form of the'ba-r at U, and the section D shows the form of the bar at l), and the section E shows the form of lche bar at E,

which is the center of the toe of the shoe, and A the heel. l Y

F is the groove for the heads of the nails which fasten the shoe to the hoof'. This groove may have points for the holes a-t; the proper points in it..

G is a rabber, forming a flange, H, as shown in the The above-described bail horse-shoe iron, constit-u- .ing series of blanks for horse-shoes, the some being creased, and each blank having, along its middle part only, the rabbci G, forming the ange H, while the paris at and toward the ends forming the heels of the. shoe are without said rabbet, and rectangulmin crosssection, substantially as described and shown.

'ltliesses: EBENEZER GATE.

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FRANK G. PARKER. 

